Want to take a special someone out on a date but just dont have enough money to do it? Need to plan a cheap date?
Dont want to be a cheapskate with cheap date ideas?
Relax the key is to use your imagination. Forget the usual (and mostly boring) dinner and a movie scenario, and start thinking: companionship, romance and fun.
Your focus should be on how well you connect, how you reveal yourself to each other and if that spark between you is growing into something deeper.
When planning a cheap date, consider the following:
- stay away from the typical date routine,
- focus on strengthening your bond,
- place yourself in unconventional situations and get to know the real you,
- have fun.
Suggestions for cheap date ideas:
Eat Chinese food in the park this is a wonderful way to spend an evening in the park, watching the stars and enjoying each others company.
Family gatherings - this is the perfect place to go to for an excellent home cooked meal, love, laughter and unconditional acceptance. (if you dont belong to the Adams family)
Massage create a romantic setting with soft music and candles and spoil each other with a stress melting massage.
Look at show houses go and look at out-of-your-league-dream-houses and dream about how your life can be if .
Window shopping visit expensive furnisher-stores to pick beautiful furnishings for your maybe-one-day-dream-house.
Go for a long leisurely walk take a walk together in your local park or suburb and spend the time enjoying the scenery and a good conversation.
Walk in the rain jump in the puddles, singing and dancing in the rain
Flower give-away buy a bunch of flowers and hand the flowers (one by one) to strangers on the street. Enjoy the reactions you will get.
Museum visit the museums in your area and educate yourself on the richness of the history of your forbearers.
Poetry readings attending a poetry reading at your local library/book club can be an incredibly romantic experience.
Play paparazzi take your cameras and follow each other around town, taking lots of photos to be put in an album at a later stage.
Bird watching borrow a book guide on birding from your library and spend an afternoon studying the birds in your area.
Picnic
Treasure hunt
Home-cooked meal
Festivals
Movie-festivals
Stargazing
Take part in a fundraiser
Garden together
Coffee date
Ice cream
Art exhibitions
Roller blades
Bike riding
Visit botanical garden/conservatory
Visit elderly person in your neighbourhood
Used book store
Attend a school concert
Treasure hunt with cameras
Go to a trade/car show
Take a rowboat on a lake at sunset
Go up in a high building and enjoy the view
Test drive a sports car
Tour a choc factory
Explore your local flea market
Go see planes taking of
Go hiking
Art exhibitions
Exercise together
Rent a movie
Build a fire and roast marshmallows
Make snow angles
Do a challenging puzzle
Play board games
Lie on the grass and watch clouds
Watch the sunrise together
Go fishing
Fly a kite
Join Habitat for Humanity
Play golf in the snow
Volunteer for a fund-raiser
Donate blood
Go snorkeling in your pool
Build a huge sandcastle on the beach
Take a long drive to anywhere
Go to a garage sale
Plant a tree and wish on it
Pick fruit/berries at a farm
Tell ghost stories by flashlight
Play frisbee
For more date ideas go to:
Active date ideas If you and that special someone you want to ask out, are into being active and love to be outdoors, an active date activity may just be the thing to start your romance on the right road.
Extreme date ideas Taking part an extreme date activity where adrenaline is released into your bloodstream causes biological changes that is similar to the feeling of falling in love.
Romantic evening date ideas The secret to pulling off an unforgettable romantic evening date depends on a few basic ingredients: planning, location, music, flowers, wine, candles and you.
Creative date ideas The key to being creative is the ability to take an ordinary idea and to tweak it into something out of the ordinary